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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIoE.

JOHN H. BEEM AND ALBAH O. MORGAN, OF ROSEVILLE, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT lN REVOLVING TABLES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 127,299, dated May 28,1872.

To all whom t may concern:

Beit known that we, JOHN H. BEEM and AL- BAH O. MORGAN, of Roseville, inthe county of Muskingum and in the State of Ohio, have invented certainnew and useful Improvements in Revolving Tables; and do hereby declarethat the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof,reference being had to the accompanying drawing and to the letters ofreference marked thereon making a part of this specification.

The nature of our invention consists in improvements on arevolvin gtable-waiter, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth.

In order to enable others skilled in the art to which our inventionappertains to make and use the same, we will now proceed to describe4its construction and operation, referring to the annexed drawing, inwhich- Figure 1 is a plan view, and Fig. 2, a central vertical sectionof a table with our revolving waiter attachedthereto.

A represents an upright post or standard, which may be inserted in andfirmly secured to the center of a table, B, or may be provided with asuitable foot to rest upon the table. At the upper end of this post orstandard is formed a tenon, a, which fits in a corresponding recess inthe under side of a hub, C. From this hub extend, at regular intervals,a series of arms, D D, which are curved downward and outward, andprovided with suitable horizontal offsets b b, upon which are laidcircular strips E E, forming shelves, as shown. These lact as a caster.

circular or annular shelves are provided with oountersunk holesd d, onwhich to place dishes, plates, &c. In the upper part of the revolvingwaiter thus formed is a solid circular shelf, G, with a central hole forthe passage of the post A. Two ofthe curved arms D, opposite each other,are connected by a cross-bar, H, having a central hole just large enoughto t on the post A and form the lower bearing for the revolvingtable-waiter.

This device can be fitted on any table and on the shelves in dishes, andany one wishing an article that is not close to him revolves the waiteruntil the article is brought in front of him. so as to be taken off tohold a lamp or pitcher of water. 1

Having thus fully described our invention,

The provisions are to be put The top I of the center postis movable,

